The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam : the War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker

ISBN-10: 0330308793
ISBN-13: 9780330308793
Series: The First Casualty
Pages: 478
Language: English
Published: 1989
Publisher: Pan Books
Author: Phillip Knightley

Description

By the award-winner of News International Journalist of the Year, Phillip Knightley has written about being a special correspondent during wartime. He questions to what extent correspondents shape myths and suppress facts? And how their role has changed over the years.